Dr. Ben Carson said that Hitler’s murder of Jews “would have been greatly diminished” if they had been armed. That, to the Washington Post‘s Vanessa Williams, is a scandal. It is, however, what many Jews often tell each other.
Recently, for example, I joined a handgun class run by a non-profit group called the Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. The group holds regular firearms classes as part of its “Jews Can Shoot” program. As I wrote at the time:
Doris began our day at the shooting range with an impassioned lecture about why Jews in particular needed to be ready. “In Europe, the pessimists left. The optimists went to Auschwitz,” she said.
Handouts distributed with the course recalled how the Nazis used gun control laws and gun registration to identify and disarm Jews and others who might have resisted the regime.
While that is not likely to happen in America, Doris said, the lesson of history is that Jews must be prepared.
by Joel B. Pollak
